Designing your own home just got a lot easier. Suite75 (from the Netherlands) has created a fantastic application which allows you to not only create your own floorplan, but also design what goes inside. Buying a new home, rearranging your room, or moving into a new office? You can save time and have more fun…
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Google recently announced a new feature for Google Maps. It’s called “My Maps”, but the name doesn’t really do it justice. This new feature now brings Google Maps a little closer to the functionality available in Google Earth [download]. Don’t get me wrong, Google Earth has so many more amazing features that it blows Maps…
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Let’s play in the world of make believe for a while. Let’s pretend that you are in need of a new home. You want to build your own home. You’d like to design it by yourself without much in way of professional help. Now, here’s the kicker, you want to build the entire thing yourself…
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Today Google announced an extremely innovative and revolutionary (and FREE) way to access the Internet. It’s called Google TiSP (Google Engineers call it Teaspoon). It leverages existing fiber-optic networks in your municipal sewage system. Google will even send you a free TiSP kit. Installation appears quite simple. If you run into problems or have additional…
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According to this article, those who are bilingual (and use both languages on a daily basis) have a better chance of avoiding (or at least delaying onset of) dementia. I knew I was supposed to go on a foreign speaking mission! Ok, so I kind of did. I served in the California Oakland Mission and…
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Brother Card has published another great essay: Civilization Watch – Building Better Children – The Ornery American Even though the URL indicates “warwatch”, it’s part of his “Civilization Watch” series. And this one is about raising our kids. I’m sure my mom will enjoy it as he reiterates a lot of what she has been…
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Note: I found this article in my drafts, so I figured I would publish it, even though it was several months ago. One of the major headaches with purchasing a new home is landscaping. You fork out all kinds of money to get into a home (which most people are stretching to pay for anyway)…
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